London: Britain doubled its gold-medal haul on the final day of the Olympic regatta with victories by the men's four and the lightweight women's double sculls Saturday, leaving the host nation atop the rowing medals table. The British finished with nine medals " four golds, two silvers and three bronzes " to surpass its record total of eight from the 1908 Olympics, which was also held in London. Britain's flagship...
07:34 PM, Aug 04, 2012
London: Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic powered to gold with a dominant victory in the women's single sculls at the Olympic rowing regatta on Saturday, adding to the world title she won last year. Knapkova outclassed her rivals to win by two lengths in a time of 7 minutes, 54.37 seconds. Fie Udby Erichsen of Denmark took a surprise silver and Kim Crow of Australia won the bronze. It...
05:41 PM, Aug 04, 2012
London: Moments before the "Star-Spangled Banner" resounded out across Dorney Lake, Taylor Ritzel looked at the gold medal hanging heavy round her neck. She shook her head and let out a huge, deep breath. Ritzel was part of the United States women's eight that won a second straight Olympic gold, maintaining the boat's six-year dominance of the flagship event. Earlier, South Africa won a closely-fought lightweight men's four race, the...
11:14 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Windsor: Ukraine won its first ever gold medal in rowing at the Olympics on Wednesday when its women's quadruple sculls beat Germany by a length at Dorney Lake. The Ukrainians crossed in a time of 6 minutes, 35.93 seconds to justify their status as narrow favorites, having won all three World Cup regattas this year. The Germans won silver ahead of the United States, which took bronze. It is Ukraine's...
05:13 PM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Indian rowers Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh finished fourth in the first heat of the men's lightweight double scull at the Eton Dorney but qualified for the repechage round at the Olympics here on Sunday. The Indian pair finished 6:56.60 at the Eton Dorney and will have another chance through the repechage to qualify for the knock-out round. Another Indian rower, Sawarn Singh Virk, made the best of the...
05:43 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: Indian rower Swarn Singh Virk held off a late challenge from his South Korean rival to win the single sculls repechage round and book a berth in the quarter-finals in the London Olympics here on Sunday. Swran, who had to compete in the repechage round after finishing fourth in the heats on Saturday, took 7:00.49 to complete the 2-km distance at the Eton Dorney Rowing Centre. The 23-year-old from...
03:17 PM, Jul 29, 2012
India has high hopes of its star rower Swaran Singh Virk at the upcoming Olympics. ...
11:11 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Chung Ju, (Korea): India's Swarn Singh Virk along with Manjeet Singh and Sandeep Kumar won their individual events at the Asian Olympic qualifiers and booked their berths for the London Olympics here on Sunday. In the finals of the FISA Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta for Asia, Virk (men's single sculls) and Manjeet Singh and Sandeep Kumar in the lightweight men's double sculls staved off very stiff challenges to qualify. This...
09:02 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Guangzhou: The rowers provided an unexpected boost to the country's medal hunt in the 16th Asian Games with two silver medals but poor form continued to haunt the fancied shooters with Gagang Narang flopping yet again as India slipped to the 12th position on the sixth day of competitions here on Thursday. Apart from the silver-winning feat of the rowers, shooter Vijay Kumar bagged a bronze medal and Paramjeet Samota...
01:50 PM, Nov 18, 2010
Guangzhou: India on Thursday won two unexpected medals in rowing with the men's four and lightweight four teams bagging a silver each in the Asian Games here on Thursday. The men's four team of Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan won silver, completing the distance of 2000m in 6:16.79, behind China (6:06.40). Uzbekistan won bronze with a timing of 6:22.70. In the men's lightweight four event final,...
09:55 AM, Nov 18, 2010
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